Earlier this month, the Presidency released a bombshell report by a high-level review panel into the State Security Agency , revealing an organisation effectively repurposed to serve the political int
erests of former president Jacob Zuma and his cronies within the ANC.
The report painted a bleak picture, describing extensive abuse of funds, disregard of legislation, unlawful spying on civil society organisations and Cabinet ministers and even blatant criminality. With the SSA clearly in crisis, questions naturally arise as to the state of its sister organisation - SAPS Crime Intelligence. South Africa is a country riddled with some of the highest crime statistics in the world. A functioning police service with an effective intelligence division that works to improve public safety should be one of our top priorities. Yet, over the last decade SAPS has fallen victim to capture with very little crime-fighting and intelligence work being done.
In this week's edition of Friday Briefing, Mandy Wiener takes us behind the scenes of SAPS Crime Intelligence to reveal how internal squabbles and politics are crippling the organisation's ability to fight crime. Securities expert Gareth Newham draws the link between poor SAPS performance and high crime stats and DA spokesperson on police Zakhele Mbhele gives his take on what the solutions are.
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